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From Crime Scene Clues To Life On Mars: UC Berkeley chemist Richard Mathies designs high-tech tools for two very different kinds of detectives.
November 16, 2004

UC Berkeley chancellor named to Prop. 71 stem cell oversight committee
November 15, 2004

33-Year Hunt for Proof of Spin Current Now Over, Announced in Science Spin Hall Effect Observed
November 11, 2004 - CNSI

UC President Dynes helps dedicate Engineering 2 and Baskin Engineering Auditorium
November 8, 2004 - QB3

Institute Building Dedications Begin Today and Continue Over Coming Weeks
October 29, 2004

CITRIS Corporate Sponsor Day
October 26, 2004 - QB3

Cal-(IT)2 $300,000 Contest to Promote Faculty Collaboration
October 21, 2004- Calit2

UC Irvine Scientists Develop World's Longest Electrically Conducting Nanotubes
October 21, 2004- Calit2

2005 Oliver E. Buckley Prize Awarded to CNSI Professor David Awschalom
October 12, 2004 - CNSI

Landmark Agreement Between Samoa and UC Berkeley Could Help Search for AIDS Cure
September 29, 2004 - QB3

UCB professor Eugene W. Myers awarded Max Planck Research Prize for International Cooperation
Max Planck Society, May 5, 2004

2003 NEWS ARCHIVES

Eureka! Historian finds meaning in treatise
San Diego Union-Tribune, December 16, 2003
A husband-and-wife team of combinatorial mathematicians -- Calit2 chief scientist Ron Graham, and Fan Chung Graham -- helped Stanford University historian of mathematics, Reviel Netz, solve "the mystery of the great Greek mathematician Archimedes' treatise called the Stomachion." Both Graham are computer science professors in UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering. The article was written by Gina Kolata, and appeared on Dec. 14.

Five Questions: Larry Smarr
San Diego Union-Tribune, December 16, 2003
Personal technology writer Jonathan Sidener talks to Calit2 director Larry Smarr about the future of supercomputing and the "Gigabit or Bust" initiative. He also asks whether the technology economy in San Diego will ever escape the shadow of Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, and Smarr replies: "I think it's just the opposite. Silicon Valley is going through a crisis of confidence... San Diego is where San Jose was in 1980. We're just at the start of building a wireless world, and San Diego is a leading center of wireless. I look to San Diego as being the future."

The View from the Top
Nature, December 10, 2003
In its Dec. 11 special report on science and technology in San Diego, contributing editor Ken Howard spoke with Calit2 director Larry Smarr and other local scientists, engineers, CEOs and policymakers. "San Diego is facing significant challenges to its future development," he writes. "How do the some of the region's leading lights think it will cope?"

FCC Chairman to Visit San Diego
The Daily Transcript, December 5, 2003
The newspaper reports that FCC chairman Michael Powell discuss issues affecting the telecom industry at a public conversation with CSE professor and Calit2 director Larry Smarr, and Peter Cowhey, dean of UCSD's School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. The event will take place at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9. Later, Powell is expected to tour Pala, Rincon and San Pasqual Indian reservations to see how technology is being implemented.
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SDSC, Sun Microsystems Tout Joint Efforts
The Daily Transcript, December 5, 2003
Technology writer Jennifer McEntee reports on several joint research programs that team Sun Microsystems Inc. and the San Diego Supercomputer Center, including the building of a supercomputer from scratch in just two hours at last week's Supercomputing 2003 conference in Phoenix, AZ. Sun and SDSC are described as "steadfast allies, a relationship one researcher described as 'deep and fruitful.
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In Ladera, It's a Beautiful Day in the Intranet Neighborhood
LA Times, December 3, 2003
Alladi Venkatesh, a management professor and Associate Director of UC Irvine's Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations, part of the UCI Division of Calit2, comments on his studies about community building in the Ladera Ranch development and his belief that the intranet developed at Ladera has helped neighbors come together on a grass-roots level.
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California NanoSystems Institute to Host First International NanoSystems Symposium at UCLA Dec. 13
UCLA News, December 3, 2003
The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) will host its first International NanoSystems Symposium at UCLA from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 13, at the UCLA De Neve Plaza.Auditorium.Nanoscience and nanotechnology topics will be discussed by internationally renowned scientists: George Whitesides from Harvard University, Thomas Steitz from Yale University, Cees Dekker from Delft University in The Netherlands, Gerhard Wagner from Harvard Medical School and Mildred Dresselhaus from MIT, with comments from Fraser Stoddart, the CNSI director who will occupy UCLA's Fred Kavli Chair in NanoSystems Sciences.

Great Balls of Fire
MIT Technology Review, December 3, 2003
In the December-January issue, the magazine's "Prototype" section reports on the success of Jacobs School professor Henrik Wann Jensen and Ron Fedkiw of Stanford University, in developing software that creates realistic animations of fire. Reports the magazine: "The software solves equations that describe swirling fluids, expanding gases, and vaporized fuel, and renders effects like smoke, soot, and objects igniting. It takes about five minutes to generate each frame, but filmmakers and special-effects companies are interested." Jensen is affiliated with Calit2.

CITRIS researcher David Culler named among Scientific American top 50 innovators of the year
Scientific American, December 1, 2003
Related Article: Mercury News

BigBangwidth BOOSTS OptIPuter
GRID Today, December 1, 2003
Researchers building a new type of Grid computing environment known as the OptIPuter have agreed to deploy BigBangwidth's next-generation lightpath technology. The system will be installed at the University of California-San Diego (UCSD), and will act as an on-ramp for large data streams from high-performance workstations connected to packet-switched networks.

Smarr on Life, GRIDS, 'The Perfect Storm'
GRID Today, December 1, 2003
HPCwire Assistant Editor Tim Curns' interview with Larry Smarr of Calit2 concerning his impressions of SC2003 and the future of supercomputing.

Buried Measure
San Diego Union-Tribune, November 27, 2003
Technology writer Scott LaFee reports on efforts to "watch, record and respond" to environmental conditions "as the technologies of embedded networks mature and evolve." He cites the Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve project of SDSU, which is affiliated with Calit2, as a "working laboratory for embedded sensor technology." SDSU's Claudia Luke and another Calit2-affiliated scientist, Dan Cayan of UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, are quoted.

Cal engineering students showcase their life-simplifying inventions
Oakland Tribune, November 25, 2003

UC Davis CITRIS researchers awarded $5 million for cybersecurity study
Daily Democrat, November 18, 2003



CITRIS researchers probe data avalanche
Oakland Tribune, November 17, 2003



UCSD Calit2 and OptIPuter Researchers Will Join At SC2003
HPCwire, November 14, 2003
The high-performance computing news service reports that intitute director Larry Smarr, Jacobs School dean Frieder Seible and co-PIs on the OptIPuter will be among those talking to Supercomputing 2003 in Phoenix, AZ, the week of Nov. 15-21.

CITRIS researchers try to measure the amount of information that Humans create
November 12, 2003

UCSD Grad Student Wins Competition
The Daily Transcript, November 10, 2003
Two academic participants in Calit2 took home the grand prize in the 2003 Collegiate Inventors Competition. UCSD chemistry and biochemistr graduate student Jamie Link won $50,000 for her 'dust-sized chips of silicon' to rapidly and remotely detect biological and chemical agents. Her advisor, UCSD professor Michael Sailor, received $10,000 for his role in the invention. *Registration required*

UCLA Chemist Fraser Stoddart Named Director of California NanoSystems Institute
UCLA News, November 6, 2003

CITRIS researchers build a crash-test Internet that will assess vulnerability
San Francicsco Chronicle, Novermber 6, 2003

New Measure of Success Cited for Statistical Prediction
Electronic Engineering Times, November 4, 2003
In its November 3 edition, the trade publication's Chappell Brown reports that renewed scrutiny of a statistical technique used by British intelligence to decode German military communications during World War II has opened new avenues in statistical prediction that researchers say could improve machine-learning software. "Recent work by Alon Orlitsky and his colleagues at the University of California-San Diego's Department of Electrical Engineering, has yielded a statistical estimator that the researchers say is more accurate than Good-Turing over time," the paper reports. Orlitsky is an academic participant in Calit2.

R&D: Mapping DNA's Danger Zones
Discover Magazine, November 3, 2003
Joseph Selim writes in the November 2003 issue of the magazine that "two bioinformatics researchers from the University of California at San Diego have pulled the rug out from under a central tenet of evolution—that mutations appear at random in different parts of our DNA." Jacobs School computer science and engineering professor Pavel Pevzner is quoted as saying "it's like having earthquake fault lines running through your DNA."

On Demand Manufacturing used by CITRIS researchers in developing robotics and electronics
MIT Technology Review, November 1, 2003

CITRIS researcher Peter Lyman studies exploding growth of information being generated
BBC News, October 31, 2003



CITRIS Director serves on panel for Robot Hall of Fame at Carnegie Mellon University
October 27, 2003

$4 million Grant to Aid Disaster Response Plan
San Diego Union-Tribune, October 24, 2003
Science writer Bruce Lieberman reports that UCSD and the VA San Diego Healthcare System landed a "$4.1 million federal grant to transform th eway emergency crews respond to terrorist attacks and other disasters." He quotes Calit2 division director Ramesh Rao on how the telecommunications technology would work.

Science expanding on Darwin's theories
North County Times, October 21, 2003
Technology writer Brad Fikes reports on a project called "Assembling the Tree of Life," a consortium of 13 universities, including UCSD, awarded $4.1 million last month from the NSF. At UCSD, the project is directed by SDSC director and CSE professor Francine Berman, who is quoted as saying "we're mapping the history of life on Earth. Another way to think of this is a molecular version of fossil collecting."

Committee Tapped to Find New UCSD Chancellor
San Diego Business Journal, October 20, 2003
The weekly reports that UC president Robert Dynes named Calit2 director Larry Smarr and 16 others to a committee of UC regents, faculty, staff, students, alumni and community members, "to advise him in the search for the next chancellor of UCSD." Dynes himself stepped down from that position before assuming the UC presidency on Oct. 2. *Subscription required*

Panel is named to advise Dynes on new UCSD leader
San Diego Union-Tribune, October 17, 2003
"Panel is named to advise Dynes on new UCSD leader"
Eleanor Yang reports that a panel of regents, faculty, staff and a student was named to advise UC President Robert Dynes on the search for UCSD's next chancellor. The panel includes "Professor Larry Smarr, director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology and professor of computer science and engineering at UCSD."
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A Connection in Every Spot
Wired Magazine, October 16, 2003
In an article from UbiComp 2003, a ubiquitous-computing conference in Seattle, Mark Baard reports on the ActiveCampus project at UCSD, "which seeks to augment human interactions with location and activity awareness, factors seen by many as essential to the success of large-scale ubiquitous-computing deployments." He quotes project leader [and Calit2 layer leader at UCSD] Bill Griswold as saying that "if we're ever going to take computing out of the lab and the back office... we'll need to make it friendly, not obtrusive. The test should be what makes people happiest."

UCLA Professor and CMISE Co-director Carlo Montemagno Receives Prestigious Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
UCLA News, October 16, 2003

NSF awards $5.46 million to UC Berkeley CITRIS researchers and USC to build testbed for cyber war games
UC Berkeley News, October 15, 2003

UCSD Gets Gift of Camcorders from Sony
San Diego Business Journal, October 14, 2003
Writer Mike Allen reports that "Sony has announced plans to give $12,000 worth of camcorders to UCSD -- specifically to the education section of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology." The equipment will be used by students and faculty at UCSD's Sixth College.
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UCLA Chosen to Lead Nano-Manufacturing Research Center
UCLA News, October 13, 2003
The National Science Foundation has awarded UCLA a grant worth nearly $18 million over five years to establish a new Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center. The new center will combine fundamental science and technology in nano-manufacturing that will transform laboratory science into industrial applications in nano-electronics and biomedicine.

$12.5-mn grant to research emergency response system
India Times, October 10, 2003
Writing from Los Angeles, Michael Potts reports for the Indian economy daily on the NSF grant to a project led by UCI's Sharad Mehrotra and UCSD's Ramesh Rao, division director of Calit2. The system being planned "will help agencies communicate and share information quickly in an emergency crisis," he reports.

NSF Awards $12.5 Million to Calit2
T Sector Online, October 10, 2003
The technology news service reports that "Calit2 provided the seed money for the project" prior to NSF funding. The article also notes that the funds will be managed by the institute, with "$9 million [going] to UC Irvine and $3.5 million to UC San Diego."

"Daily Business Report"
San Diego Metropolitan, October 10, 2003
In its online version, the publication notes that UCSD researchers will get over $14 million from the NSF to fund information-technology research projects on the campus. Some $3.5 million of the total will go to research led by Calit2 division director Ramesh Rao for a joint project with UC Irvine on IT for emergency response.

UCI Lures Michigan Prof
Orange County Business Journal, October 6, 2003
In the October 6 issue of the Orange County Business Journal, technology reporter Andrew Simons writes about UCI hiring Albert Yee as director of California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. Simons says that Dr. Yee is the second professor UCI has hired away from University of Michigan, a top 20 engineering school.
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'Bio-Slime,' the Latest Theory on Pollution, Oozes Intrigue
Los Angeles Times, October 5, 2003
Huntington Beach and Newport Beach are ground zero for these efforts," said Stanley B. Grant, professor of environmental engineering and chairman of the department of chemical engineering and materials science at UC Irvine. Grant conducted several studies on the bacteria problem, including an examination of the bacterial flushing from Talbert Marsh, a reclaimed wetlands area along Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach that drains into the ocean. "We know there is no natural source," he said. "Weird things happen and you don't understand why." *Registration Required*

NSF awards $12.5M for first responders
Washington Technology, October 2, 2003
The National Science Foundation will award $9 million to the University of California's Irvine campus, and $3.5 million to the San Diego campus to develop information sharing tools and organizational strategies for first responders.

Talk of the Nation interviews CNSI member Jim Gimzewski about the future of Nanosystems.
National Public Radio, September 26, 2003
Get the transcript under "Nanotechnology" on the NPR site.

Calit2 showcased in daylong conference
Daily Transcript, September 25, 2003
In the daily newspaper's lead story, technology writer Jennifer McEntee reports that "a bird's eye view of the new [Calit2] facility was part of a daylong open house, expo and conference at the UCSD campus... By the end of 2004 or beginning of 2005, it will be a 220,000-square-foot research space featuring clean room environments, a wireless laboratory and media labs." Quoted are institute director Larry Smarr, division director Ramesh Rao, and Jacobs School dean Frieder Seible. *Subscribers only*

Rep. Chris Cox Announces $9 Million to UCI
Commends University on Urban Crisis Work
News From U.S Rep. Christopher Cox, September 25, 2003
Rep. Christopher Cox, Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and House Policy Committee Chairman, announced today that the University of California, Irvine (UCI) is the recipient of a five-year, $9 million National Science Foundation grant to promote homeland security.

Robotic Invasion: Sophisticated robots are on the verge of changing our world
Oakland Tribune, September 21, 2003

CITRIS helping solve society's problems
BizInk, September 19, 2003

UCI Researcher Gets $12-Million Science Grant
LA Times, September 18, 2003
LA Times Staff Writer Claire Luna covers the NSF award in today's Orange County section interviewing UCI professor Sharad Mehrotra and the head of NSF's computer and information science and engineering team."
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Technology to the rescue at UCI
Orange County Register, September 18, 2003
Marla Jo Fisher reports on Cal-(IT) at UCI receiving one of NSF's largest collaborative research awards in the amount of $12.5 million, for a five-year project to develop new methods for collecting, analyzing and disseminating disaster data to decision makers and the public."

The eyes have it
Federal Computer Week, September 11, 2003
Writer Heather Havenstein reports in the publication's Aug. 25 edition on renewed interest in video technology for surveillance and first responders. UCSD professor [and Calit2 layer leader] Mohan Trivedi "is spearheading research funded by the Defense Department to study Distributed Interactive Video Arrays, a system linking multiple cameras that track people or objects as they move." Trivedi is also reported as saying that "digital video is ideally suited for first responders because it can provide multiple views of a situation."

Neil Morgan
San Diego Union-Tribune, September 8, 2003
In his Sunday column, Morgan reports that "it's not a trade show but an all-day paean to the evolution of information technology: On Sept. 24 at Price Center, Larry Smarr's UCSD division of Calit2 unfurls its latest Unbelievables."

Conference Features Cal IT Successes
San Diego Business Journal, September 3, 2003
In its Sept. 1 edition, the weekly reports that "the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at UCSD will showcase its research at an all-day conference and open house in late September... More than two dozen UCSD faculty will make presentations on current and future technology."
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Wireless 101: Tech companies put money in academic research
Daily Transcript, September 3, 2003
Technology writer Jennifer McEntee reports on eight new projects funded by members of UCSD's Center for Wireless Communications and the UC Discovery Grant program. CWC director Lawrence Larson is quoted as saying "corporate sponsors are looking for products they can commercialize and students they can groom for the future tech work force."
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$1.8 million grant awarded for grid network
The Daily Transcript, September 2, 2003
The newspaper notes that Calit2 is participating in a new project called FWGrid, funded by NSF with $1.8 million "to implement an advanced computer and telecommunications network" in UCSD's new Computer Science and Engineering building, which is now under construction. CSE professor and FWGrid principal investigator Andrew Chien is quoted.
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Video Games Now a Degree
United Press International, September 2, 2003
The study of video games -- combining computer science, art, and sociology -- is often masked by euphemisms such as "interactive media" or "digital arts."

Professor Victoria Vesna interviewed in this article: "In the Future, Every Molecule Will Have 15 Minutes of Fame."
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Los Angeles Times, August 31, 2003

Off to college to major in ... video games?
The Christian Science Monitor, August 29, 2003
Celia Pearce of Calit2 new media arts layer comments on video games as a new college major in the Christian Science Monitor.

Army Research Office Awards up to $50 Million To UCSB-Led Partnership to Establish Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies
ICB Press Release, August 27, 2003

Making a Case for San Diego's Military Economy
San Diego Business Journal, August 26, 2003
"Down the Road, Portable Power; Hydrogen hailed as fuel source of the future" In an Op-Ed piece, Julie Meier Wright and William J. Cassidy Jr. argue that California and San Diego have put in place "critical investments that will enable us to maintain that leadership, from Calit2, to the [San Diego] Supercomputer Center, to Irwin and Joan Jacobs' major gift to the UC San Diego School of Engineering."
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UCI Lands Darpa Grant for Nanotechnology Study
Orange County Business Journal, August 25, 2003
UCI researchers, affiliated with Calit2, received a $300,000 grant from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) to research nanotechnology for wireless communications.
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NSF Awards New Grants to Study Societal Implications of Nanotechnology
NSF Press Release, August 25, 2003

Remote possibilities grow with redwoods
Tiny sensors a huge help in tracking trees' progress
SFGate.com, August 18, 2003

Can Grand Theft Auto Inspire Professors?
The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 15, 2003
Celia Pearce, new media arts layer, suggests that professors learn to use games to their advantage in the Chronicle of Higher Education story...

CNSI building architecture is highlighted in this article: "Would You Work Here? - The architects behind a new generation of laboratories believe their designs can stimulate good science. Laura Bonetta finds out how, and looks at research that may one day help to test their claims.
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Nature Magazine, August 14, 2003

GOV. Gray Davis (D), touts CITRIS Smart Dust technology on Larry King Live
Larry King Live Transcript, August 14, 2003

Tiny sensors offer a treasure of data
Mercury News, August 12, 2003
In the hushed shade of a Berkeley hillside, the redwoods are starting to give up their secrets. They speak of how hot the sun feels on their crowns, and how cool and moist the air stirs in the deep shade beneath their branches. The information flows into dozens of small sensors that stud the trees from top to bottom. Each is connected to a computer, a radio and a battery, all in a space the size of a film canister. They broadcast a continual stream of information about temperature, humidity and lighting, giving scientists their first detailed look at the world from a redwood's point of view.

Down the Road, Portable Power; Hydrogen hailed as fuel source of the future
Newsday.com, August 10, 2003
Down the Road, Portable Power; Hydrogen hailed as fuel source of the future" Since then, "it's been a frenzy, or you could call it a stampede," said Scott Samuelsen, director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center at the University of California, Irvine.

eHelp Corp. Launches $12 Million Software Donation Program to Colleges and Universities Across the Nation
CSRwire.com, August 5, 2003
The Web version of Corporate Social Responsibility news service reports that "eHelp(TM) Corp., the makers of RoboHelp(R), announced the commencement of its Academic Software Donation Program, committing a total of $12,000,000 worth in RoboDemo(R) eLearning Edition tutorial software to accredited colleges and universities." The first recipient is UCSD's Sixth College, through Calit2, and Sixth provost Gabriele Wienhausen is quoted as calling RoboDemo "a tremendously valuable program."

Pushing the Edge
Today @ UCI, August 4, 2003
Interviewed in Today@UCI, Calit2's New Media Arts Layer Leader at UCI, Simon Penny, believes society is on the edge of a change as resounding as the Industrial Revolution. He sees the emergence of a digital culture that blends art and technology into new social practices only now being imagined by Penny and others in his field.

CITRIS researchers participate in PlanetLab, a global test bed for inventing and testing prototype Internet applications and services.
CRN, August 1, 2003

CITRIS researchers use wireless sensors to collect tree data
The Associated Press, July 29, 2003
Some high-growing redwoods are going high-tech as researchers turn to wireless sensors to help them monitor tree data.

Frontier Life #2: Sheldon Brown
Joystick101.org, July 21, 2003
Calit2's New Media Arts Layer Leader, Sheldon Brown, discusses his fascination with games and how they influence his artwork in an interview with Joystick101.org.

Ninth and Tenth Grade L.A. Science Teachers Come to UCLA to Learn to Teach Nanoscience, New Experiments in their Classrooms
UCLA News, July 21, 2003

Exploding Universe Of Web Addresses
New York Times, July 17, 2003
In the newspaper's weekly Circuits section, Jeffrey Selingo reports on efforts to update the system of Internet Protocol addresses now that "new technology is draining the stockpile" of addresses. He reports on the recent IPv6 global summit co-sponsored by Calit2, and quotes director and Jacobs School computer science and engineering professor Larry Smarr as well as Calit2 Scholar Alex Lightman, who organized the conference. (registration required)

Teaching Computers to Work in Unison
New York Times, July 15, 2003
Technology writer Steve Lohr reports on the origins of Grid computing at a 1995 supercomputing conference in San Diego, and quotes Calit2 director and CSE professor Larry Smarr as recalling it "was the Woodstock of the grid — everyone not sleeping for three days, running around and engaged in a kind of scientific performance art." Also quoted: UCSD neuroscientist Mark Ellisman, director of the Biomedical Informatics Research Network, who says that "we're helping a scientific community to understand that it does more good to make information more generally accessible than squirreling it away. (registration required)

Military Campaigns for New Net
Investor's Business Daily, July 10,2003
Technology writer Donna Howell reports on Pentagon plans for rapid deployment of the next generation of Internet protocols -- IPv6 -- and quotes Calit2 director Larry Smarr as saying "I think you're going to see IPv6 adopted faster than some people thought it would be." Also quoted: Calit2 Scholar Alex Lightman, who organized the recent IPv6 Global Summit co-sponsored by the institute in San Diego.

New electronic 'sky walls' for airliners
The Washington Times, July 8, 2003
A new combination of global positioning system software and modifications to avionics could make it impossible for airliners to breech no-fly zones.

Cameras find face in a crowd
La Jolla Village News, July 7, 2003
Brett Hanavan Baldridge reports that in the wake of increased security concerns, UCSD scientists led by Jacobs School professor Mohan Trivedi "are developing an automated system to detect and track faces in a crowd, and to better monitor large areas where people gather and areas sensitive to intrusion." Funding for the study comes from a federal agency, The Technical Support Working Group (TSWG) under the Department of Defense.

netBeans.org, July 2, 2003
Game Culture & Technology Lab Associate Director for Research Walt Scacchi is featured in story about approaches for discovering free/open source software development processes in projects like NetBeans.

Pentagon gives high-tech world new marching orders
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 26, 2003
Technology writer Bruce Bigelow reports from the Calit2-sponsored IPv6 Global Summit in San Diego, that "the Department of Defense has moved to reassert its enormous influence in the development of information technologies" by throwing its weight behind the new Internet Protocol version 6. Calit2 director Larry Smarr is quoted as saying the Pentagon announcement is "a real wake-up call for every U.S. vendor that sells to the DOD."

Intel, universities create world network
New York Times, June 25, 2003
CITRIS Researcher David Culler participates in project to create global network (registration required)

TeraGrid Project Begins Accepting Computing Proposals
PARTNER PRESS RELEASE, June 23, 2003
Researchers across the U.S. will be able to submit proposals for use of the first computing systems of the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid project beginning June 15.

UCLA Physicists Create Single Molecule Nanoscale Sensor; Possible Applications for Medicine, Biotechnology, Detecting Biological Weapons
UCLA News, June 19, 2003
The research of Giovanni Zocchi, assistant professor of physics at UCLA and member of the California NanoSystems Institute is highlighted in this article:

Technology
Washington Times, June 19, 2003
In his June 19 tech column, Fred Reed reports that there is big money in anti-terrorism, including federal grants for research. He notes that the Pentagon "has given a contract to the Computer Vision and Robotics Research Laboratory at the University of California at San Diego to develop... interlinked cameras, connected to computers, [that] would recognize suspicious activity, like a car stopping by the fence surrounding a sensitive installation."

Start-up Happy to Roll Out Router After Tech Implosion
Dallas Morning News, June 18, 2003
Writer Vikas Bajaj reports on the first deployments of Dallas-based Chiaro Networks' Enstara router, noting that "researchers at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology are using the router to study what new applications could be created if networks had many times their current capacity." Speaking for Calit2, SDSC's Phil Papadopoulos calls the router "an extremely flexible system for us to undertake our research objective." *Registration Required*

UCI Students Put Their Game Faces On
LATimes.com, June 18, 2003
Christine Carrillo of the Daily Pilot reports from Irvine on computer science students showing "their work -- videogames." Students of Information and Computer Science professor Dan Frost, a Calit2 academic participant, developed their own videogames during a 10-week course.

The Camera Eye
San Diego Business Journal, June 10, 2003
In its high-tech news section, the weekly reports that "UC San Diego has an 18-month, $600,000 anti-terror grant from the federal government to develop an automated system for detecting and tracking faces in a crowd." Mohan Trivedi, a professor at UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering, leads the research team. *Subscribers only*

He sees IT coming
Mizzou, June 9, 2003
In the cover story of Mizzou's summer edition, the magazine of the University of Missouri Alumni Association profiles Calit2 director Larry Smarr, an alumnus who is "behind the scenes, ahead of the pack" and helping "set high-tech's learning curve." Smarr received both his AB and MS from the university.

UCSD gets $5 million grant
Daily Transcript, June 6, 2003
The newspaper reports on the $5 million grant to the UCSD Stroke Center, Jacobs School and Calit2, which will allow physicians to "utilize a new ultrasound-screening tool and provide remote consultations via wireless technology, in an effort to increase the number of stroke patients receiving more timely treatment." *Subscribers only*

CITRIS researcher Hal Varian examines deflation in today's economy for the New York Times
June 5, 2003 (registration required)

Lab to develop security systems
UCSD Guardian, June 5, 2003
Staff writer Melissa Baniqued reports on the $600,000 award to UCSD's Computer Vision and Robotics Research laboratory "to continue developing technology for an automated system designed to fight terrorism by detecting and tracking faces in a crowd." The principal investigator on the project is Calit2 layer leader Mohan Trivedi.

Smart Cams Take Aim at Terrorists
Wired News, June 4, 2003
Writer Kari Dean reports on distributed digital video arrays (DIVAs) being developed by Calit2 transportation layer leader Mohan Trivedi, at UCSD, who recently was awarded a $600,000 grant from a Defense Department working group "for further development of DIVAs, cameras that see, think and communicate."

CITRIS spearheads project to develop Iraq 'virtual heritage' archive
June 3, 2003

In Computing, Weighing Sheer Power Against Vast Pools of Data
New York Times, June 2, 2003
Technology writer John Markoff reports on a new push to shift the focus of supercomputing centers from computing, to data storage, and quotes Calit2 director and CSE professor Larry Smarr as agreeing with the basic thesis and saying that rapidly increasing network speeds would make it possible to increasingly distribute computing tasks. *Registration required*

Five Questions: Bill Gates
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 2, 2003
In its regular Monday Q&A column, the newspaper quotes Microsoft chairman Bill Gates' responses to questions from students at the Jacobs School and UCSD's charter Preuss School, covering subjects ranging from "his taste in music; how well he knows Mircosoft's products; what we can expect from the next version of Windows; and what matters most to him in life."

Berkeley Plans to Revive Looted Museum on Web
LA Times, June 2, 2003
Galvanized by the ransacking of Iraq's National Museum, computer scientists, archeologists and art historians at UC Berkeley are hatching a plan to help the museum — and the war-scarred nation — resurrect at least some of what was lost. (Registration Required). Project prototype is available at: www.ecai.org/iraq.

Microbes engineered to create malaria drug
Associated Press, June 1, 2003
Genetic engineers in Northern California say they're close to perfecting a new biotechnology recipe of an ancient Chinese remedy for malaria. The researchers at UC Berkeley aim to inexpensively manufacture the malaria fighter in E. coli bacteria, rather than finely grinding the wormwood plant to extract the remedy artemisinin as Chinese herbalists do now.

Engineering a mevalonate pathway in Escherichia coli for production of terpenoids
Nature Biotechnology, June 1, 2003
Isoprenoids are the most numerous and structurally diverse family of natural products. Terpenoids, a class of isoprenoids often isolated from plants, are used as commercial flavor and fragrance compounds and antimalarial or anticancer drugs.

Berkeley fuses biotech, engineering
SF Chronicle, June 1, 2003
The biotech industry may be stalled in the test tube, but that doesn't mean the university-industrial complex is standing idle. UC Berkeley broke ground last Friday on the $162 million Stanley Bioscience and Bioengineering Facility, a humongous research and teaching building scheduled to open in 2006.

Davis hopes research center will find AIDS cure
Oakland Tribune, May 31, 2003
Gov. Gray Davis and University of California President Richard Atkinson tossed up the first clods of dirt Friday on a project at UC Berkeley that both predicted will help boost California's economy in the decades ahead and offer great hope for breakthroughs in disease and human health. The occasion marked the groundbreaking for a new building -- to be called the Stanley Biosciences and Bioengineering Facility. It replaces the old Stanley Hall, immediately across Gayley Road from the Greek Theater.

A "field of dreams" for health sciences
UC Berkeley News, May 30, 2003
Build it and they will come, says Gov. Gray Davis at groundbreaking for new facility that's already luring the nation's top researchers. When completed in 2006, the new Stanley facility will house all of QB3's researchers, as well as labs for the College of Engineering's bioengineering department and CITRIS, which also has space in the recently renovated Hearst Memorial Mining Building.

Gates has praise for university research model
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 28, 2003
In his column, Neil Morgan reports that Bill Gates told some 1,500 UCSD students that Microsoft uses university research as a model "instead of the corporate model... We felt the best way to expand the state of the art is to hire great researchers and give them the freedom to innovate with a minimum of bureaucracy." He also noted that before the student forum, Gates met with Cal-(IT)2 director Larry Smarr, who -- along with former SDSC director Sid Karin -- "prodded the National Science Foundation into creation of the first supercomputer centers in 1985."

Gates: Best of computing is yet to come
The Daily Transcript, May 28, 2003
Technology writer Jennifer McEntee reports on Bill Gates' speech to UCSD students and the question-and-answer session, with Cal-(IT)2 director Larry Smarr posing questions from students. She quotes Gates as predicting "the really interesting software is the software that will be written in the next decade. This is not a mature science." *Subscribers only*

CRA Distinguished Service Award 2003
presented to Ruzena Bajcsy
CRA, May 2003

Higher Degrees of University Relations
AT&T Research News, May 20, 2003
For a recent piece on its website, AT&T Research showcased the beginning of a new relationship with universities, "and the first program to get up and running is with the UCSD." According to the release, "First, it will support faculty and graduate-level research that leads to innovations in the area of IP measurement for network reliability. Second, it will generate collaborations between UCSD and AT&T researchers, through working with students and participating in annual "retreats" to present and discuss research results. And third, it will result in an internship program for UCSD students to work at AT&T Labs."

Microcosmos
Wired Magazine, May 14, 2003
In a bylined article for the June 2003 issue, CSE professor and Calit2 director Larry Smarr writes about nanospace as "the new space race... the battle for more and more control over less and less." "I have seen the future, and it is small," he writes, and concludes that the scientists and engineers working in the nano arena of the future will be "masters of bioinfonanotech."

The E-Biz Surprise
Business Week Online, May 12, 2003
CITRIS researchers' Smart Dust project plays role in keeping e-commerce hot (registration required)

CITRIS researcher, David A. Patterson and CITRIS Director, Ruzena Bajcsy appointed to the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee
May 8, 2003

Biologist as watchmaker, cells as parts
The Christian Science Monitor, May 8, 2003
Michael Phelps, chair of the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLA, comments in today's Christian Science Monitor in an article about technology that allows researchers to produce full genome sequences for viruses like SARS.

Academy of Arts & Sciences elects 2 from QB3
May 6, 2003
UCB press release - Two QB3 scientists have been honored by election to the Academy of Arts and Sciences: Jennifer Doudna, professor of molecular and cell biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator; and Carolyn R. Bertozzi, professor of chemistry and of molecular and cell biology, a staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

Tour of the city
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 5, 2003
In his Sunday column, Neil Morgan notes that Microsoft founder Bill Gates will give a lunchtime talk at UCSD's Price Center on May 27, hosted by Calit2 director Larry Smarr. Morgan notes that when Gates was asked whether he wanted to see Smarr's bio, the email response was: "Don't bother. Everybody here knows about Larry Smarr."

UCLA Electrical Engineering Professor Elected to National Academy of Sciences
UCLA News, May 2, 2003
Eli Yablonovitch, professor of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. The election, which took place April 29, marks the first time someone from UCLA's engineering school has become a member.

A Shot at a New Drug-Delivery System
May 2003
Lab Notes - Bioengineering professor Dorian Liepmann and post-doctoral researcher Boris Stoeber have developed a microelectro-mechanical system (MEMS) syringe, the size of a fingernail.

Six Technologies That Will Change the World
Business 2.0, May 2003
CITRIS researcher's work with smart dust motes touted as one of Six Technologies That Will Change the World.

Anticipating the Next Technological Revolution
InterAct, April 30, 2003
In a feature showcasing various Calit2 projects and "the convergence of wireless and broadband," the quarterly publication of the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) quotes institute director Larry Smarr and other researchers. (Smarr delivered the keynote address to CENIC's annual meeting in 2002.) Also in this issue: features on two other California Institutes for Science and Innovation (CITRIS and QB3), and a cover story on a breakthrough in 3-D imaging at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

10th anniversary of Mosaic browser marked
Associated Press, April 28, 2003
As posted in the online magazine Salon.com, AP reporter Jim Paul quotes Calit2 director Larry Smarr on the impact the Mosaic web browser had on the Internet. "It was an accelerator for the whole Internet," said Smarr, the former director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), where Mosaic was developed.

Digital renaissance transforming art
San Diego Union Tribune, April 28, 2003
Writer Sherry Parmet reports on moves by local colleges and high schools to teach computerized art, and quotes UCSD professor Sheldon Brown as saying "artists were some of the first people to jump onto the Internet." Brown is the director of UCSD's Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), and leads Calit2's New Media Arts layer at the university.

Media combine in kids' minds
San Jose Mercury News, April 24, 2003
Technology writer Dawn Chmielewski interviewed Calit2 New Media Arts layer leader Sheldon Brown for a story about the convergence of consumer electronics and technology industries as today's 'digital kids' become the next target market for interactive entertainment. Brown is also director of UCSD's Center for Research in Computing and the Arts.

Mosaic started Web rush, Internet boom
The News-Gazette (Urbana-Champaign, IL), April 22, 2003
Writer Greg Kline looks back at the development of Mosaic, the first Web browser, ten years ago, at the University of Illinois supercomputing center. The story quotes then-NCSA director [and now Calit2 director] Larry Smarr.

Future Web likely to be smarter, smaller and more interactive
The News-Gazette (Urbana-Champaign, IL), April 22, 2003
In part two of his special report, Greg Kline looks at the future of the Internet on Mosaic's 10th anniversary, quoting Calit2 director Larry Smarr as comparing the current state of things on a level with the development of the automobile before the highway system. "It takes decades to really build out a national, in this case a global, infrastructure," he said.

Chien Discusses Smarr's OptIPuter
GRIDtoday, April 21, 2003
GRIDtoday correspondent Neil Alger spoke recently with Dr. Andrew Chien, chief software architect for the Calit2-led OptIPuter project.

What Is It Like To Be a Fish?
LA Weekly, April 11 -17, 2003
"Body Electric", by UC Irvine's Simon Penny and Malcolm MacIver of Caltech, is featured as one of six installations in "Neuro", an art and science collaboration about how organisms and devices interact with their environments. The exhibit is jointly organized by the Center for Neuromoprhic Systems Engineering at Caltech and the Art Center College of Design. Penny is the Layer Leader for the New Media Arts in the Irvine Division of Calit2.

Smart Dust & Quake-Proofing Buildings
The Science Show (Australia), April 11, 2003
In its April 5 edition, Australia's premier radio program about science profiles two Calit2-related projects. Host Robyn Williams interviews biochemistry professor Michael Sailor about smart dust -- tiny silicon sensors. (Transcript). Williams also talks with Jacobs School dean Frieder Seible [co-chair of Calit2's Governing Board] about new technologies to test and retrofit buildings to better withstand earthquakes and bomb blasts. (Transcript) (RealPlayer required).

In Vintage Maps, a Japan Bygone Floats Lyrically Online
New York Times, April 10, 2003
One of the world's largest collections of rare, historical Japanese maps is digitized and posted online (registration required).

The fall of Stanley Hall
Berkeleyan, April 9, 2003
Berkeleyan - Demolition shifted into high gear on April 3. A brand-new building will rise on the same site: a seismically safe structure that will become the UC Berkeley center of the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research — aka QB3.

'Heart' of SAIC reveals plans to step down
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 9, 2003
In a report on the planned retirement of SAIC founder Bob Beyster after 30 years at the helm, writer Bruce Bigelow quotes former Jacobs School dean and Calit2 Governing Board co-chair Bob Conn as saying "it is a diverse company with strong distributed leadership, a part of Bob's approach to management." SAIC is an industry partner of Calit2.

Wireless Assistive Services for People with Speech Disabilities
Calit2, April 8, 2003

Research collaboration with top telecommunications institute
HP Labs, April 7, 2003
According to an article on the website of HP Labs, the Hewlett-Packard unit will pursue new wireless technologies as part of a research partnership with Calit2, "one of the world's most prominent centers for wireless technology development."

Buckyballs and Screaming Cells: The Amazing Miniature World of UCLA Chemist Jim Gimzewski
L.A. Weekly, April 4, 2003
Jim Gimzewski, UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry, is profiled in the April 4-10 issue of L.A. Weekly. Gimzewski and Mike Teitell, UCLA assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, are quoted.

Citris Exports Education Through Distance Learning
CITRIS, April 2003

Smart Dust - Mighty motes for medicine, manufacturing, the military and more
Computer Word, March 24, 2003
Mighty motes being developed for use in healthcare, military and manufacturing.

Top People and Organizations to Watch in 2003
HPCwire, March 21, 2003
The high-performance computing online news service named Calit2 Chief Scientist Ron Graham to its annual list of 20 people and organizations, noting that "in his role at Calit2, Ron oversees research into optical computing and next-generation networking technologies." Also named to the 2003 list: the San Diego Supercomputer Center's Chaitan Baru, who heads up Calit2's Knowledge and Data Engineering Lab; and Alan Blatecky, the new Executive Director of SDSC.

You can count on him
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 18, 2003
In the newspaper's Technology Inc. section, staff writer Bruce Bigelow profiles Jacobs School professor and Calit2 Chief Scientist Ronald Graham -- a mathematician who "coolly juggles scientific puzzles and six or seven balls."

Neighborhood watch
The Guardian (U.K.), March 12, 2003
In a reference to the ActiveCampus project led by Jacobs School computer science professor and Calit2 layer leader Bill Griswold, the British newspaper notes that at UCSD "students have location-enhanced buddy lists to show them where their friends are on campus."

Lessons of the Shadow Bowl
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 12, 2003
On March 9, columnist Richard Louv reported on "Shadow Bowl," an effort co-led by SDSU professor and Calit2 participant Eric Frost, which made San Diego "a national test case for regional preparedness in the event of a major terrorist attack."

Computer research center unveiled in Texas
United Press International, March 11, 2003
In a report on University of Texas at Austin creating a $38 million computer science, engineering and technology research center, the news service quotes Calit2 director Larry Smarr as saying the university has "become a national model for public and private partnerships in grid computing." Major donors include Dallas investor Peter O'Donnell Jr. and UT (each $15 million), and high-tech companies including IBM, Microsoft, TeraBurst and Sun ($8 million total). *Subscribers only*

A new angle on traffic congestion
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 10, 2003
The newspaper's Jeff Ristine reports on work in the computer vision lab of Calit2 layer leader Mohan Trivedi, on the the deployment of a network of omni-vision highway cameras, to help coordinate response to traffic emergencies.

Biology takes on new life at UC Berkeley
San Francisco Business Times, March 10, 2003
The University of California, Berkeley is slated to begin work this month on the new $162.3 million Stanley Hall, a facility expected to place the campus at the forefront of a new interdisciplinary approach to biology.

New Technologies That May Help Silicon Valley Rise Again
Los Angeles Times, March 9, 2003

UCLA Chemists Report New Method for Producing Carbon Nanoscrolls, an Alternative to Nanotubes
UCLA News, March 5, 2003
UCLA chemists report in the Feb. 28 issue of Science a room-temperature chemical method for producing a new form of carbon called carbon nanoscrolls. Nanoscrolls are closely related to the much touted carbon nanotubes - which may have numerous industrial applications - but have significant advantages over them, said Lisa Viculis and Julia Mack, the lead authors of the Science article and graduate students in the laboratory of Richard B. Kaner, UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry.

QB3 Newsletter
March, 2003

UCSD researcher gets grant
San Diego Union-Tribune, February 25, 2003
In its weekly Technology Inc. section, the paper notes that UCSD professor Truong Nguyen "will receive more than $200,000 over three years from Skyworks Solutions and a university-industry cooperative research program... to fund work that could lead to smoother video streaming on wireless handheld devices such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants." The grant is through Calit2.

Internet helps researchers share brain images, data
San Diego Union-Tribune, February 23, 2003
Science writer Bruce Lieberman reports that UCSD neuroscientist (and Calit2 participant) Mark Ellisman is leading BIRN -- an effort to coordinate a national computer network that could become a model for how scientific research is shared.

Three Faculty Members at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science Elected to National Academy of Engineering
UCLA News, February 19, 2003
CNSI member Eli Yablonovitch is among three faculty at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering.

UCLA Breaks Ground for World's Most Advanced Nano-Research Facility, With Gov. Gray Davis and UC President Richard Atkinson
UCLA News, February 14, 2003
UCLA will break ground for a new building that will house the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). The institute is one of Gov. Gray Davis' four UC Institutes for Science and Innovation to expand California's role as the leader in technical invention.

Global research network to use Calient equipment
Santa Barbara News-Press, February 12, 2003
Business editor Mark Van de Kamp reports that "Calient Networks Inc., which has offices in Goleta, San Jose and San Diego... will team with the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, involving the University of California and businesses, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, on development of the OptIPuter." Subscription only.

Calient Networks Chosen for Optiputer Project
Converge Network Digest, February 12, 2003
"Calient Networks Chosen for Optiputer Project" The online news service reports that Calient Networks will supply its "all-optical switching system for the OptIPuter research project underway by... Calit2 and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)." Calient's platform, it reports, "uses a single-crystal silicon 3D MEMS design."

NASA Seeks Answers From Simulators, Amid Some Doubting
New York Times, February 7, 2003
In a report on the use of computer modeling to understand what destroyed the space shuttle Columbia, writer Andrew Revkin quotes Calit2 director Larry Smarr saying "shuttle simulations are among the most verified codes in computational engineering."

Preuss Visualization Center
San Diego Metropolitan, February 6, 2003
In its daily online report, the magazine reports on the dedication of the Visualization Center at the Preuss School UCSD, funded in part by Calit2, giving middle and high school classes "access to hundreds of advanced (3-D) software programs, including some that will be developed by ...Calit2."

Man or Machine? A New Program at UCLA Strives to Put Both Into Space
Los Angeles Times, February 5, 2003
An article in the Los Angeles Times features the Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration, a new scientific program for interplanetary research at UCLA. Chih-Ming Ho, UCLA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and director of the program, and Carlo Montemagno, UCLA professor of mechanical and space engineering, are quoted (Home Edition, Business, Pg. C1).

New Battery Design Could Be the Answer to Powering the World's Smallest Devices
UCLA News, February 3, 2003
Bruce Dunn, a materials science professor from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, believes a radical new design for a lightweight, rechargeable battery - a design based on three-dimensional geometry - will provide power to a host of devices so small that traditional batteries simply cannot be used.

Who's Gettin' Busy 2003
San Diego CityBeat, January 29, 2003
In its January 15 issue, the magazine profiles "33 people we have our eye on" among San Diego's movers and shakers, including UCSD Sixth College provost [and Calit2 education layer leader] Gabriele Wienhausen.

Wind River co-founder named to institute board
East Bay Business Times, January 27, 2003
Alameda-based Wind River Systems Inc., an embedded software and services company, announced that company co-founder and chairman Jerry Fiddler was named to the board of directors for the California Institutes for Science and Innovation.

Making Waves in San Diego
Mpulse Magazine, January 23, 2003
In the January issue of the online magazine sponsored by Calit2 industry partner Hewlett-Packard, Rick Mathieson calls San Diego a "world-class Mecca for wireless innovation," and notes that it is "no surprise" that the Jacobs School of Engineering and Center for Wireless Communications have made UCSD "one of the world's most prominent centers for wireless technology development."

10 Emerging Technologies that Will Change the World
MIT Technology Review, January 10, 2003
In its February 2003 issue, the magazine cites Cal-(IT)2 director Larry Smarr and academic participant Andrew Chien among seven researchers leading the way in Grid computing and peer-to-peer network.

State Budget, Blow by Blow
Orange County Register, January 9, 2003
In an article on the state's budget, Bill Parker, vice chancellor of research and interim division director of Calit2 at UC Irvine, commends Davis' efforts to advance research claiming, "The governor created a model of commitment to high tech that is the envy of other states."

An Easy Route to Polyaniline Nanofibers
Chemical & Engineering News, January 6, 2003
CNSI Professor Ric Kaner and graduate student Jiaxing Huang have successfully developed a novel synthesis to make high quality conducting polymer polyaniline nanofibers in bulk quantities. Collaborating with Dr. Bruce Weiller and Shabnam Virji in Aerospace Corp., the CNSI chemists demonstrated that polyaniline nanofibers have great promise as sensor materials. This work was published in Journal of American Chemical Society (requires subscription) and has been highlighted by both Chemical & Engineering News (1/6/03) and Science (1/2/03).

See Chemical & Engineering News – “An Easy Route to Polyaniline Nanofibers” (requires subscription)
Science – Editors’ choice: “Synthesizing at the Interface” (PDF File -- requires subscription)

50 People to Watch in 2003
San Diego Magazine, January 2, 2003
In its annual issue, the monthly magazine names Peter Cowhey, the new dean of UCSD's graduate School of International Relations & Pacific Studies, and his plans "to maintain and enhance the school's role as a breeding ground for future Pacific Rim leaders." Cowhey is the leader of Cal-(IT)2's Policy, Management and Socio-economic Evolution layer at UCSD.

Professors Vie with Web for Class's Attention
New York Times, January 2, 2003 *Registration Required
According to writer John Schwarz, "dozens of colleges are going wireless, including.... the University of California at San Diego," creating a challenge for professors as more and more students cruise the Web in class.

2002 NEWS ARCHIVES

Unplugged into the future
San Diego Union-Tribune, Decmber 30, 2002
Technology writers Jennifer Davies and Jeff MacDonald survey the potential impact on society of the always-on wireless Web, quoting experts including Calit2's UCSD division director Ramesh Rao, Calit2 Scholar Alex Lightman, and Center for Wireless Communications director Larry Larson.

Yes, they are watching you
InfoWorld, December 30, 2002
Writer Stephen Lawson analyzes the development of computer vision-based surveillance technology, and highlights the development of "intelligent spaces" in the lab of Jacobs School electrical and computer engineering professor and Calit2 layer leader Mohan Trivedi.

Larry Smarr on the Shape of the Grid in 2003
GridToday, December 16, 2002
The online news service's editor-in-chief Alan Beck published this exclusive interview with Calit2 director Larry Smarr, who "believes that National Science Foundation (NSF) leadership will probably emerge as a key -- perhaps the key -- force unifying and standardizing the Grid, as the [it] spends billions of over the next decade on its large scale shared science and engineering facilities."

The Grid is in the Air: An Interview with SDSC's Fran Berman
GridToday, December 16, 2002
Special correspondent Neil Alger interviewed San Diego Supercomputer Center director Fran Berman, an academic participant in Calit2 and computer science professor at the Jacobs School. In it, she warns that "there has been considerable underestimation of the level of difficulty of the problems that one must address in order to deploy the most sophisticated vision of the grid."

Gateway launches on-demand computing
San Diego Union-Tribune, December 11, 2002
In a report on Gateway's networking PCs in its stores nationwide to offer grid computing services, technology writer Bruce Bigelow quotes Calit2 director Larry Smarr on the potential benefits of a profit-making peer-to-peer networking program.

UCSD begins work on quake simulator
San Diego Union-Tribune, December 11, 2002
Staff writer Eleanora Yang reports that "researchers from throughout the country soon will be coming to San Diego to test structures on a $10.4 million earthquake simulator being built by UCSD" at Camp Elliott eight miles from the campus; Yang quotes Jacobs School interim dean and Calit2 Governing Board co-chair Frieder Seible.

New Center for Nanoscale Innovation Transfers Knowledge From Universities to Industry
UCLA News, December 10, 2002
CNSI members David Awschalom, Eli Yablonovitch,and Karoly Holczer are sited in a news piece concerning funds for CNSI through CNID,The Center for Nanoscience Innovation for Defense, a government institution created to facilitate the rapid transition of research innovation in the nanosciences into applications for the defense sector.

Wall Street Journal, December 4, 2002
The story of how CTI Molecular Imaging teamed up with CNSI member Michael Phelps, Norton Simon professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, to build the first PET scanner, was reported in Friday's Wall Street Journal.

Links adding up for grid computing
Chicago Tribune, December 2, 2002
Technology reporter Jon Van charts the history and current state of grid computing, and quotes Calit2 director Larry Smarr on the goals of the recently-announced OptIPuter project, led by UCSD and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

UCSD in OptIPuter test
San Diego Union-Tribune, November 26, 2002
In its weekly Technology Inc. section, the newspaper notes that Calit2 "plans to use an optical router as the heart of a campus-wide supercomputer," with partners including IBM, Telcordia Technologies and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Optical communications using cell phone technology
Press Release, Nov 26, 2003

Move Over Three R's, UCSD Freshmen Learn New Language to Meet 'IT' Requirement
San Diego Business Journal, November 25, 2002
Staff writer Patricia Strickland reports on a new course called "Fluency in Information Technology," the first developed by the Jacobs School's Computer Science and Engineering department, for the new undergraduate Sixth College. College provost and Calit2 UCSD layer leader for education Gabriele Wienhausen is quoted. Subscription Required

An Interview with Chiaro Networks' Ken Lewis
HPCwire, November 22, 2002
In an interview with the news service's editor in chief, Chiaro's CEO talks about the company's new high-end routing platform and its initial deployment on the UCSD campus as part of the Calit2-led OptIPuter project.

An Interview with Chiaro Networks' Steve Wallach
HPCwire, November 20, 2002
At Supercomputing 2002, the high-performance computing news service's editor-in-chief Alan Beck interviewed the Chiaro executive about how his company's new optical router fits into the Calit2-led OptIPuter project.

Chiaro Beats Cisco, Juniper to U.S. OptIPuter Grid Contract
TheMarker.com (Israel), November 20, 2002
The Hebrew-language tech news service notes that the deal with Calit2 represents a major victory for Chiaro Networks, "the most extensively financed startup in Israeli history."

Chiaro Beats Cisco, Juniper
Haaretz Daily (Israel), November 20, 2002
The newspaper's English-language edition profiles Chiaro Networks, the company set to deliver its Enstara optical router to the OptIPuter project led by Calit2.

Chiaro Girds 'Router' for the Grid
LightReading.com, November 20, 2002
The online optical-networking site's senior editor Phil Harvey reports on the technology that Calit2 is deploying at UCSD as part of its OptIPuter project, with the unveiling of the first optical router made by Chiaro Networks.

High-end routers emerge
Network World, November 19, 2002
Writer Jim Duffy notes that Chiaro Networks' entry in the core router market is "shipping and deployed now at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology next-generation grid network, OptIPuter."

UCLA Professors James Heath Named to Scientific American's List of 50 'Visionaries'
UCLA News, November 18, 2002

Supercomputer to Use Optical Fibers
New York Times, November 17, 2002
Writer John Markoff reports on Calit2's plan to use an optical router, designed by a Chiaro Networks, "as the heart of a campus-wide supercomputer that will be woven together with optical fibers".

UCLA Scientists Eavesdrop on Cellular Conversations by Making Mice ‘Glow’ With Firefly Protein
UCLA News, November 13, 2002
CNSI Member Dr. Sanjiv Gambhir, leads research that
will allow scientists to study how cellular proteins talk to one another, the findings may speed development of new drugs for cancer, cardiovascular diseases and neurological diseases.

"Magazine's technology awards recognize practical adaptations"
Mercury News, November 11, 2002
CNSI Member James Heath is cited in San Jose Mercury News as one of Scientific American magazine's 50 top science and technology leaders of 2002 (State and Regional News).

UCLA Researchers Develop Chemical Switch to Control Biomolecular Motor
UCLA News, November 8, 2002
CNSI Member Carlo Montemagno, professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Bioengineering, reports that his group has developed a chemical switch that gives them control over a biomolecular motor just 11 nanometers, or 11 billionths of a meter, in size.

UCSD to take part in study of schizophrenia
San Diego Union-Tribune, November 4, 2002
Staff writer Cheryl Clark reports on a new $10.9 million grant to a group of nine institutions led by UC Irvine and UCSD, where scientists including Calit2 participant Mark Ellisman will study schizophrenia by sharing brain images over a high-speed version of the Internet.

John Wooley Discusses How Biotech Companies Can Partner with UCSD
BioCommunique, October 29, 2002
The monthly newsletter of San Diego's biotech trade association reports on a briefing by Calit2 and other UCSD researchers for an audience of more than 200 industry executives.

Hao Li Cracks the Code
UCSF, October 25, 2002
QB3-UCSF's Hao Li has developed a "novel" method for studying gene regulation, thanks in part to Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

Scientists Shrink Computing to Molecular Level
New York Times, October 25, 2002
New York Times - CNSI member James Heath comments today in The New York Times concerning the creation of possibly the world’s smallest logic circuit (Late Edition, Section A, Pg. 22; National Edition, Section A, Pg. 18).

OptIPuter boots up
The Scientist, October 21, 2002
The British magazine quotes Calit2 director Larry Smarr as saying the NSF-funded OptIPuter project is necessary for large-scale e-science applications because the "chunks of data are so big, that trying to get them across the shared Internet is just not possible."

Sensors Gone Wild
Forbes, October 21, 2002
In its Oct. 28 edition, the magazine's Benjamin Fulford showcases an experiment in sensor networking in the California desert undertaken by UCLA computer science professor Deborah Estrin, who sits on Calit2's Advisory Board. Registration required.

CNSI Member Appointed to National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine
Chronicle of Higher Education, October 15, 2002
CNSI member David Eisenberg, UCLA professor of biological chemistry and director of the UCLA Center for Genomics and Proteomics, is appointed to the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine. He is among 65 new members announced by the Institute.

Architecture and Engineering: Special Report
Orange County Business Journal, October 10, 2002
The architect's rendering of the lobby of the Calit2 building at UCI was used to lead off this special report, on page 26 of the September 23, 2002 issue. Johnson Fain Partners were the architects for the building design. (Page reprinted by courtesy of the Orange County Business Journal.)

Commuting on the fast track
Associated Press, October 10, 2002
Sacramento correspondent Jim Wasserman quotes Mohan Trivedi, Calit2's layer leader for intelligent transportation and telematics at UCSD, in a report on various ways in which "California pioneers high-tech methodology to unclog its roadways."

Telecom Blues?
T Sector, October 7, 2002
In its October edition, the magazine's cover story carries an in-depth interview with five local insiders--including Calit2 director Larry Smarr and former UCSD Jacobs School dean Bob Conn--on the long-term outlook for the telecom industry. Full, uncut version of the interview is available online.

The Air Apparent
T Sector, October 7, 2002
Writer Tim Ingersoll profiles roll-out of the Wi-Fi network on the UCSD campus, including the CyberShuttle experiment, and quotes extensively from Ramesh Rao, UCSD division director of Calit2, on the outlook for Wi-Fi versus 3G technology. Subscription required.

Clearing the Path at Calit2
T Sector October 7, 2002
This report by Andrea Siedsma on the start of construction on the institute's new building includes an illustration showcasing the wireless "free zones" that will allow "radio frequency signals to flow into, out of and through the building." Subscription required.

UCSD Researchers Win $1.8 million in Discovery Grants
UCSD Guardian, October 4, 2002
The campus newspaper reports that the state grants will fund four new research projects to be carried out by Calit2 and the Center for Wireless Communications.

Frontier Science Drives San Diego's Biotech Industry
San Diego Metropolitan, September 30, 2002
In the August issue, writer Bradley Fikes reports on advances in bioinformatics at Calit2 and the San Diego Supercomputer Center, noting that the frontier in biotechnology is moving "away from direct observation to computer modeling."

National Science Foundation Announces Grant Winners
New York Times, September 26, 2002
Technology writer John Markoff reports on the biggest information-technology awards, including the UCSD-led OptIPuter project; Jacobs School professor and Calit2 director Larry Smarr is quoted as hailing "the government investing big bucks in optics at the very moment that Wall Street has destroyed optical networking."

Area Researchers Win $30 Million in Grants
San Diego Union-Tribune, September 26, 2002
Reporter Bruce Lieberman notes that UCSD "is the leader or major partner in four of the seven largest national projects the foundation will fund through its Information Technology Research program... UCSD alone captured more than $22 million."

UCSD Researchers Win Project Grants
San Diego Union-Tribune, September 25, 2002
The paper's Business Briefing column reports that 12 researchers at the UCSD's Jacobs School have won more than $1.8 million in state-funded UC Discovery Grants for four new research projects to be carried out through the Center for Wireless Communications and Calit2.

"Daily Business Report"
San Diego Metropolitan, September 25, 2002
The magazine's online edition details faculty members who are teaming up on four projects in wireless and optical communications with support from industry and $1.8 million in matching UC Discovery Grants.

NSF gives $13 million for UC Berkeley-led project bridging computer software and systems science
UC Berkeley Campus News, September 25, 2002

"UCSD's Jacobs School Gets $1.8 Million to Fund Communications"
T Sector, September 24, 2002
The magazine's online edition reports on grants from the state that "will match corporate dollars to pay for wireless and optical research" at the Center for Wireless Communications and Calit2.

A New School of Thought at UCSD
San Diego Union-Tribune, September 23, 2002
Staff writer Eleanor Yang reports on the opening of UCSD's Sixth College, led by Calit2 education layer leader Gabriele Wienhausen, noting that the undergraduates in "arts, culture and technology" were given PDAs (part of the ActiveCampus project led by CSE professor and Calit2 interfaces and software systems layer leader Bill Griswold).

CNSI Professor Robert Goldberg awarded $1 million grants From Howard Hughes Medical Institute
UCLA News, September 19, 2002
CNSI Professor Robert Goldberg awarded $1 million grants From Howard Hughes Medical Institute to support creative approaches to undergraduate education.

UCI's Celia Pearce Quoted on Education for Game Development Career
2002 Game Career Guide, September 19, 2002
Celia Pearce, Research and External Relations Manager for the New Media Arts layer at UC Irvine, is quoted in the 2002 Game Career Guide published in August by Game Developer Magazine.

New Hall Puts Research Projects Under One Roof
Daily Californian, September 18, 2002
UC Berkeley's Health Sciences Initiative and the Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3) are working together to replace Stanley Hall by summer 2005 with a building of the same name that will be both seismically sound and conducive to interdisciplinary research.

UC Santa Cruz professor awarded $1 million grant for innovative approach to undergraduate science education
Press Release, September 18, 2002
QB3 Professor Manuel Ares will use a $1 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to pursue an innovative approach to teaching science to undergraduate students.

San Diego scientists applying research to homeland security
Associated Press, September 9, 2002
AP reporter Seth Hettena's story, picked up by North County Times in its Sept. 6 edition, highlights the work of UCSD researchers, including Jacobs School interim dean Frieder Seible (photo) and structural engineer professor Gil Hegemier.

Technology Worth Watching: Detector for Warfare Agents
Financial Times, September 5, 2002
The London-based newspaper summarizes findings published in the October edition of "Nature Materials" magazine, based on development of "intelligent dust" to detect chemical and bio-warfare agents by Calit2 researchers Michael Sailor and Sangeeta Bhatia.

UCSD gets Funding for Security Projects
San Diego Daily Transcript, September 5, 2002
The paper reports on three new federally-funded research projects in the Jacobs School's computer vision lab of Calit2 layer leader Mohan Trivedi, "for three separate research projects designed to aid Homeland Security agencies."

Mobilized
San Diego Union-Tribune, September 4, 2002
Writer Bruce Lieberman's front-page story reports that researchers from Calit2, UCSD and other institutions--"San Diego's arsenal of scientific talent"--are "contributing to the fight against terrorism."

Dust-sized Chips Can Detect Bio Attack
San Diego Daily Transcript, September 4, 2002
The paper reports on an upcoming story in "Nuclear Materials" about Calit2 researcher and UCSD chemistry and biochemistry professor Michael Sailor's development of so-called "smart dust" chips of silicon treated chemically to detect biological or chemical hazards in the air or water.

Bertram Wins IEEE Award
San Diego Metropolitan, August 30, 2002
The magazine's online Daily Business Report notes that Jacobs School professor Neal Bertram has won the IEEE's award for information storage advances, for his working on the underlying physics of magnetic storage devices.

A New Science Is Born
North County Times, August 19, 2002
Brad Fikes reports on the leadership role that San Diego, UCSD, and Calit2, are playing in the new field of bioinformatics and bioengineering.




Frontier Science Drives San Diego's Biotech Industry
San Diego Metropolitan, August 9, 2002
In the August issue, writer Brad Fikes reports on thriving research in bioinformatics at UCSD, Calit2 and the San Diego Supercomputer Center, including the work of Bioengineering professors Shankar Subramaniam and Andrew McCulloch.

UCSD Prof Wins Electronics Industry Prize
T Sector Online, August 8, 2002
The online service notes that Calit2 researcher Peter Asbeck becomes only the third California researcher to win the IEEE David Sarnoff Award since it was instituted almost 50 years ago.

The Fading Future
San Diego Union-Tribune, August 5, 2002
In a report on how visions of life-changing technology are succumbing to economic downturn, writer Jennifer Davies quotes Calit2 director Larry Smarr on why innovation is thriving in universities with federal dollars.

High Hurdles Facing Wi-Fi
Business Week, August 2, 2002
Writer Jane Black reports on the obstacles to wider adoption of 802.11 coverage, citing Calit2 "always best connected" research and quoting the institute's UCSD division director Ramesh Rao.

Wireless in San Diego
San Diego Daily Transcript, July 29, 2002
Writer John Patrick Ford reports on Calit2 director Larry Smarr's keynote speech and other views of the wireless market during a recent conference on "Evolving Markets in Telecommunications."

Design In Privacy Makes Sense
NewsScan Daily, July 15, 2002
Privacy advocate Simson Garfinkle calls the scope of Calit2's endeavor "breathtaking" but also urges the institute to factor privacy concerns into its "living laboratories."

Calit2 Moves Forward
UCI News, July 15, 2002
UC, Irvine highlights current Calit2 activity and profiles Lorrie Minkel, financial manager for the institute's UCI division.

Safety in Digital Numbers
UCSD Perspectives, July 8, 2002
In its Summer 2002 issue, the magazine profiles cutting-edge research into the use of computer vision and other technologies for auto safety, done in the lab of Calit2 layer leader Mohan Trivedi.

Program lets blind 'see' and draw
United Press International, June 30, 2002

Engineering Vehicle Safety
UCSD-TV, June 28, 2002
On July 3, at 8 p.m. PDT, UCSD-TV will air a 20-minute report on auto safety research projects in the lab of Calit2 layer leader Mohan Trivedi.

CyberShuttle: Mobile hotspot on campus
802.11 Planet.com, June 21, 2002
Writer Cheryl Meyer quotes Calit2 UCSD division director Ramesh Rao on the UCSD Wi-Fi-equipped commuter bus that allows riders to send e-mail, download files and surf the Web.

"Tiny UCLA Sensors Could Provide Big Help for U.S. Military"
Los Angeles Business Journal, June 20, 2002
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Roadtripping in Search of the Technological Future
Fortune, June 17, 2002
In its June 24 issue, magazine writer Eryn Brown recounts 33 days on 8 campuses--including UCSD, where she highlighted Calit2 projects

NASA Selects UCLA as Site for New Space Exploration Research
Institute; Researchers Aim to Mimic Biological Systems for Space Design
UCLA News, June 14, 2002

UCLA Chemist Richard Kaner Awarded Gold Shield Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Service
UCLA News, June 14, 2002

Wireless: The Next Quarter Century
Forbes, June 13, 2002
Magazine editor Erik Hesseldahl asked Calit2 director Larry Smarr and four other visionaries for their views of the future of wireless on its 30th anniversary.

A Big Deal for San Diego Technology
June 4, 2002
In UCSD Connect's Newsletter, Brian Blazevic writes about the groundbreaking of the Calit2 and new CSE building which occured on May 31, 2002.

Institute Launched at UCSD
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 3, 2002
Writer Samule Autman reports that Gov. Gray Davis helped break ground on a building to house Calit2, " an institute that [Davis] and business and academic leaders hope will further transform California's economic and technological landscape."

Spintronics
Scientific American, June 2002
Spintronics has important implications toward information storage and CNSI professor David Awschalom describes how spintronic devices create spin-polarized currents to control current flow.

HHMI Announces Selection of New Investigators Who Conduct Patient-Oriented Research
Howard Hughes Medical Institute News, May 28, 2002
CNSI professor Charles Sawyers was named an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for "an innovative program to improve the translation of basic science discoveries into enhanced treatments for patients."

UCLA Geneticist Earns International Award
UCLA News, May 16, 2002
CNSI professor Linda Peltonen receives the 2002 International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine/Abbott Award for significant contributions to molecular diagnostics.

Intelligent Sensor Networks
San Diego Business Journal, May 15, 2002
In a report on a UCSD Connect conference about sensor networks, writer Brad Graves quotes Calit2 director Larry Smarr's prediction that "biological sensors [will be] planted in people's bodies measuring things such as metabolism."

John Orcutt Elected to APS
Scripps Institution News Release, May 14, 2002
Scripps scientist John Orcutt, a member of Calit2's Environment and Civil Infrastructure layer, has been elected to the prestigious American Philosophical Society.

Sci-fi writers visit Calit2
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 13, 2002
In its May 11 edition, the paper ran a feature story by Kathryn Balint on the visit of science-fiction writers to campus. The writers--all UCSD alumni--visited projects under the auspices of Calit2.

Berkeley computer scientist Randy Katz wins American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellowship
Chronicle of Higher Education, May 8, 2002 (* Registration required)

Technology Trailblazers
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 6, 2002
A feature about Calit2 was the paper's main Sunday cover story. Sacramento correspondent, Bill Ainsworth, called it an investment in "the economic future of the region and possibly the nation." The series also featured a profile of director Larry Smarr, and in Monday's paper, a Q&A with Smarr.

The Toughest Transistor Yet
IEEE Spectrum On-line, May 2, 2002
CNSI Professor Umesh Mishra is co-author of IEEE Spectrum's feature article that describes the prospects of gallium nitride transistors. GaN holds promises for high power and energy-efficient transistors.

Gov. Davis Signs Funding for California Institutes
UC Office of the President, April 30, 2002
According to a release from the UC Office of the President, Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation to provide $308 million in lease-revenue bonds to build California Institutes for Science and Innovation buildings.

Genefluidics counts on glass to break into nanobio market
Small Times, April 30, 2002
At the Southern California Technology Venture Forum (SCTVF), CNSI professor Chih-Ming Ho, spoke about what's happening between biological sciences and nanotechnology and of sensitive methods for analyzing material at the nanoscale.

CITRIS hopes to tap campus databases to aid research across disciplines
Berkeleyan, April 24, 2002

Calit2, IBM, SDSC AND Scripps Institution of Oceanography Unveil Powerful Computing Resources for Ocean Research
April 24, 2002
Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist Detlef Stammer contributed this article about the COMPAS ocean and climate modeling project, a partnership that includes Calit2, IBM and the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Also see: Video

Internet2 Dance Performance
April 24, 2002
UCI professor Lisa Naugle, an academic participant in Calit2's New Media Arts layer, recently organized a distributed dance performance, combining live performances at UCI and New York University. As Shellie Nazarenus reports, music and video were transmitted in both directions over Internet2.   Video

Shared-Use Car Project
April 22, 2002
UCI professor Will Recker, campus Calit2 layer leader for Transportation, takes the wraps off California's largest shared-use station car initiative. Shellie Nazarenus reports the ZEV-NET project combines the Internet, fuel cells, electric vehicles, research and shared-use together to solve complex problems like traffic congestion, air pollution and oil dependency.

Warming to Wi-Fi
Los Angeles Times/Chicago Tribune, April 18, 2002
In a report on the future of 802.11b, so-called "Wi-Fi" wireless, technology writer Jon Van says the Cal-(IT)2-sponsored CyberShuttle "that marries 3G and Wi-Fi may provide a glimpse of this hybrid future."

Muhammad Yunus, famed banker to the world's poorest people, to speak at Cal April 19 (UC Berkeley Campus News, April 18, 2002)
April 18, 2002
Sponsored by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS).

CITRIS, QB3 get full funding from state legislature
Media Relations, UC Berkeley, April 16, 2002

Grid Computing
MIT Technology Review, April 10, 2002
In the publication's 3,700-word report on grid computing, the May 2002 cover story, M. Mitchell Waldrop quotes Calit2 director Larry Smarr extensively on the prospects for "a new kind of utility that offers supercomputer processing on tap."

Bus Ride on the Information Superhighway
Los Angeles Times, April 7, 2002
Interviewing Calit2's Ramesh Rao and others, staff writer Anica Butler reports that "UC staff and students on a campus shuttle stay connected while they try out new technology allowing faster mobile Internet access."

"News Briefs from S. California"
Associated Press, April 3, 2002
The news service reports that the "UCSD shuttle project is one of several conceived" by the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, a partnership between UCSD, University of California, Irvine and several private-sector companies to promote advances in telecommunications and information technology in California."
  news brief - video report

Cyber Bus Gives Students High-Speed Wireless Ride
Wireless NewsFactor, April 3, 2002
Brian McDonough, Wireless.NewsFactor.com
UCSD and Calit2 have "added a cyber shuttle that provides 2 Mbps... wireless access to passengers being ferried around campus and to a nearby train station," reports Brian McDonough.

'CyberShuttle' Offers Wireless Internet Access to UC-San Diego Commuters
Chronicle of Higher Education, April 2, 2002
Calit2's Ramesh Rao and other researchers call the high-speed Web-enabled vehicle "a glimpse into the future of ubiquitous computing," reports Florence Olsen.

"1xEV: 3G to the Max"
Ars Technica, April 2, 2002
This online PC enthusiast's resource showcases a detailed but engaging 5-part account of testing Qualcomm's 3G wireless technology, by John Kleint, a summer 2001 undergraduate Calit2 Fellow.

Battle Against Terrorism
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 26, 2002
Calit2 "is developing new ways to use the Internet so that scientists, emergency personnel and public officials can better share information during a crisis," reports science writer Bruce Lieberman on anti-terrorism battle in San Diego.

Capital Vote
T Sector Online, March 21, 2002
On March 21, the California Assembly adjourned until early April, without taking a vote on legislation that would commit the state to issuing lease-revenue bonds to raise $50 million for Calit2. That amount would represent the rest of California's capital commitment to financing construction of the institute's planned buildings at UC San Diego and UC Irvine. As T Sector's Amy Johnson Conner reporting for the online news service ahead of the adjournment, the Assembly is largely divided along party lines.

CITRIS technology can aid anti-terrorism efforts
The Berkeleyan, March 20, 2002
Director updates UC Board of Regents on center’s progress one year out

Visualization Center
KNSD-TV, March 20, 2002
Calit2 director Larry Smarr is quoted on NBC's San Diego TV station about the launch of the new visualization facilities at UCSD and San Diego State University.

Visualization Center
KFMB-TV, March 20, 2002
In this report for the CBS affiliate in San Diego, reporter Shawn Styles profiles the new Calit2 Visualization Center at Scripps--and how it can be used to follow seismic activity.

Nerve-gas Project
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 11, 2002
Writer Jeff Ristine mentions Calit2 in this report on the work of UCSD chemist Michael Sailor, on sensors that "ultimately could lead to a new generation of cheap, portable nerve-gas detectors."

Visualization Partnership
North County Times, March 11, 2002
In a feature about the new visualization centers linking the two universities, staff writer Bradley J. Fikes reports that Calit2 "is considering broadening the UCSD/SDSU partnership into a crisis management system for the San Diego area."

Immersive Environments
VREfresh.com, March 8, 2002
VREfresh featured the launch of Calit2's Visualization Center at Scripps as its lead story. The online publication covers advanced interactive projects run by the European Commission's Interactive Technologies program.

Visualization Center
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 5, 2002
The paper's science writer Bruce Lieberman reports on the Calit2 linkup between UCSD/Scripps and SDSU, "connecting experts separated by geography so they can simultaneously analyze huge amounts of data."

Scientists Develop Plastic That Mends Itself
New York Times, March 5, 2002 (login required)
CNSI Professor Fred Wudl describes the invention of a self-healing plastic.

Vision on Wheels
WNBC-TV, February 19, 2002
Calit2's UCSD transportation layer leader Mohan Trivedi is profiled in this report about new technology under development to improve car safety when a driver talks on a cell phone.

Profile
San Diego Business Journal, February 17, 2002
In a full-page profile, reporter Brad Graves says Calit2 director Larry Smarr sees himself on a life-long program of learning.

Q&A with Larry Smarr
MIT Technology Review, February 13, 2002
In its March issue (due on newsstands Feb. 26), the publication carries a 2,500-word Q&A with the Calit2 director, calling Smarr "a master facilitator, bringing people and institutions together to work on key technological challenges."

QB3 Appoints Director - Leaders Applaud Decision
Press Release, February 4, 2002
Leading Science Administrator Marvin Cassman has been named Director of the new Institute for Biomedical Research (QB3).

Earthquake near Julian
February 4, 2002
Sunday, February 3, a 4.0 quake was felt near the town of Julian. The UCSD Anza group (led by Frank Vernon, research seismologist at SIO and Calit2 participant) operates a broadband seismograph network. Their web site posts maps on current seismic activity as well as recorded data from previous earthquakes.

Clinton praises CITRIS during Berkeley visit
College of Engineering and UC Berkeley press coverage, January 29, 2002

Cylinders make circuits spontaneously
Nature, Janury 29, 2002
CNSI Professor James Heath and colleagues develop conducting grids of carbon nanotubes to function as a diode.

H-P, UCLA Receive a Patent for New Technology
Wall Street Journal - (requires subscription)
January 24, 2002
CNSI and UCLA Professor James Heath and Hewlett-Packard researchers Philip Kuekes and R. Stanley Williams have received a broad patent for UCLA and H-P in nanotechnology. "The patent lays out several methods for 'growing' crossed arrays of tiny wires on a silicon substrate".

Firm lauds find in molecular technology
Miami Herald, January 24, 2002
The Hewlett-Packard-UCLA team are building computer chips at the molecular level. CNSI Professor Jim Heath and R. Stanley Williams of HP plan to create a hybrid-molecular-silicon computer circuitry.

HP claims big step in tiny chips
CNet News.com, January 23, 2002
Hewlett-Packard and CNSI Professor James Heath patent method to commercialize nanochips.

WNBC-TV "Biometrics"
January 22, 2002
In a recent report on the NBC station in San Diego, reporter Vic Salazar interviewed Calit2 UCSD transportation layer leader Mohan Trivedi about new technology under development for computerized facial recognition and other types of biometrics.

Interview with James Gimzewski
BioMedNet Magazine, January 18, 2002
CNSI Prof. Jim Gimzewski discusses the potential of nanobiotechnology.

Business Now TV "TeraBurst"
January 15, 2002
In early January, the syndicated TV program Business Now featured Calit2 and director Larry Smarr in a report on one of the institute's industry partners, TeraBurst Networks. The report aired on ABC-owned stations.

Calit2: Newsmaker of 2001
The T Sector, January 2, 2002
In its annual Tech Newsmakers issue, the San Diego-based publication named Calit2 the newsmaker of the year in the "community" category, noting that "business and community press followed the Institute's progress throughout 2001." Jacobs School of Engineering dean Bob Conn (right) was cited for his role in bringing Calit2 to San Diego and Irvine.

Future Tech: Computing with a Twist
Discover, January 2002
CNSI Prof. David Awschalom's "emerging technology of spintronics may soon make it possible to store movies on a Palm Pilot or build a radical new kind of computer."

2001 NEWS ARCHIVES

Colors are Truly Brilliant in Trek Up Mount Metaphor
New York Times, December 25, 2001
Scientists, such as CNSI Prof. David Awschalom, deal with pictorial mountains to sort and analyze mathematical data.

It's Small, It's Cool, It's Well-Funded Now: How Do You Make It Profitable?
Small Times, December 11, 2001
CNSI director Martha Krebs participated in a forum at CalTech to discuss the commercial potentials and ventures in the field of nanotechnology.

A new spin on computing UC scientists suggest way to harness electrons for processors (CNSI)
SF Chronicle, Dec. 10, 2001

UC Berkeley hires prominent researcher with passion to improve lives through new technology
UCB Press Release, October 4, 2001
Ruzena Bajcsy comes to UCB as the new director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS).